MUMBAI: Bombay high court will pronounce on Monday its order on whether a PIL filed by former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh, seeking CBI probe against state home minister Anil Deshmukh, should be heard further.
Singh’s plea alleged that Deshmukh had asked police officers, including suspended assistant inspector Sachin Waze who has been arrested in the case of bomb scare near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence, to collect Rs 100 crore each month from bars and restaurants. The PIL also alleged corruption in police transfers and postings and political interference in probes.
A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni had on March 31 reserved its order on the issue of maintainability of the PIL (whether it should be taken up for final hearing or dismissed at the preliminary stage).